The time has come for me to say goodbye to my profiler days. 

I've been contributing mainly full audits of DVD's I own for 2 years now - only on rare occasions have I submitted partial updates.

The main reason I've decided to leave, is that I do not like the present course Invelos seems to be taking. They do not adress serious questions raised by the community, but rather remains anonymous by deleting/censoring forum posts that get out of hand instead of adressing the questions raised in the initial posting. I am fully aware that threads can be derailed and turn into garbage quickly, but it is my adamant opinion that this could have been prevented had they adressed the issues raised in the first place.

Another reason for me calling it quits, is that I do not (and can not) agree with some of the policies Invelos is currently enforcing. The main thorn in my side is the allowance of users to contribute updates to profiles they do not own. I've seen far too many examples that different localities have different credits for me to accept that "cross-contributing" should be allowed. I've even adressed this specifically in voting, but to no avail - contributors have even gone as far as calling me a liar in their notes, and got their contribution accepted. This to me is utterly unacceptable.

I do not blame any particular users for making me leave - it has been a decision long in the coming. That being said - some users have made the decision for me a lot easier than it necessarily would have been.

Now - the reason for me posting this rather long and, for some, probably tiresome post is that I wish to make Invelos aware of the current "state-of-affairs" so to speak. Too many valuable members have called it quits in the recent months for them to ignore the development (although it seems to me that they do not care). If I'd seen this coming a few months ago, I would have kept a record of the users openly professing to quit, but I'm sure someone out there can narrow the numbers down..

I bid you all a fond farewell - this program has given me more joy than I can begin to explain, but as I've said - enough is enough - I cannot in good concience continue...

Peace out and be free! 

I remember last year when you were questionning my reasons to not contribute anymore. It looks like you have finally seen that a problem exist in the database, the forum and DVDP in general...

Let's see if this thread gets deleted.

Quoting Ken Cole:

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I do not, however, share the sentiment of doom & gloom that some have indicated.  The facts are that our total number of contributions per week continues to rise.  Also, the quality of said contributions is higher than at any point in DVD Profiler's history, measured by any objective standard.
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I actually figured this was the case.  We forum users live in a very small fishbowl and don't have a clue as to what is happening out in the real world...metaphorically speaking.

As to the OP, sorry to see you go Berak.

Quoting Ken Cole:

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At present, my time (outside of support tickets, customer service handling, contribution processing, DB administration, accounting, forum moderation, etc.) is 100% focused on the iPhone version.  As such, for better or for worse, some of the unsettled contribution concerns have taken a temporary back seat. 

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As to the status of the iPhone version, I won't be giving a time estimate, nor will I be announcing features ahead of release.  We want to make sure we catch our competion off guard.    I'll say one thing though - although there are iPhone apps for DVD collections available now, there are none like this one. 

Not fair, wetting our appetite that much! I hope it won't be "too long".

@ Berak:
Really sorry to see you leave, and I wish you the very best!

It's quite a relief to read Ken's statement indicating that both the amount and the quality of profile contributions are still increasing, in spite of the recent flood of long-time contributors leaving the pitch. Just another indication that the forums are in no way representative of the overall user body.

Good luck to Ken in the development of a truly groundbreaking iPhone version! Maybe it's time I started considering getting an iPhone myself...

@ Berak:
Sad to see you leave. I always thought of you as a very valuable member of our community. I really hope that in times to come you'll overthink this decision. See you then.

Quoting goodguy:

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Quoting Ken Cole:

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At present, my time (outside of support tickets, customer service handling, contribution processing, DB administration, accounting, forum moderation, etc.) is 100% focused on the iPhone version.  As such, for better or for worse, some of the unsettled contribution concerns have taken a temporary back seat.

That is the problem with one time fees. Not that I'm complaining about DVD Profiler's pricing scheme; I like paying little and only once as much as the next guy. And I do remember the beating I took for not offering my plugin Profile Comparison Plus to such conditions. But if a developer has to spend valuable time and resources on limited revenue streams, it becomes an issue. Thus new projects become far more attractive and the "old stuff" has to take a back seat (new 3.6 plugin API, *cough*).

Agreed!
I really wouldn't mind to pay (again) for major updates. The problem is probably that Ken would have to get most of us "old" users to accept a new licensing model.
EDIT: But this could probably be solved by a new version (4.0) with a new licensing model, provided that the old 3.5 keeps it's functionality, so that nobody is forced to update.